About Michelle
Michelle Kotch is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with 25 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and grief. She also supports those struggling with parenting challenges, relationships, family concerns, self-esteem, addictions, and ADHD.
Michelle believes people know their own stories best. She looks for each person's strengths and builds on them. She encourages small steps that lead to practical change.
Her tone is straightforward and supportive, aimed at people who may be nervous about starting therapy.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens first, then works with clients to set clear goals. Conversations focus on real-life problems and everyday strategies. She helps people try different approaches until something fits their life and schedule.
Over her career Michelle has worked with many people facing loss, major life stress, and difficult transitions. That experience informs how she guides coping skills, emotion management, and problem solving. She aims to make therapy useful and understandable rather than complicated.
Clients can expect a respectful, down-to-earth approach that names strengths and challenges plainly. Michelle encourages practical techniques that can be practiced between sessions. She recognizes the courage it takes to begin and supports each person step by step.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and coping skills. One approach centers on building coping strategies for anxiety and stress, teaching step-by-step tools to manage overwhelming thoughts and daily pressures. Another approach emphasizes grief and loss support, helping people name their feelings, find routines that help, and gradually re-engage with everyday life.Finding the right method is part of the journey. Michelle works together with each person to identify which techniques fit their needs, goals, and schedule. She encourages trying different options and adjusting the plan based on what feels useful and doable.
Online therapy offers flexibility and convenience through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow fuller conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text are good for short updates, quick coping reminders, or continuing work between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while keeping sessions practical and focused.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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